Example sentences of "about sex " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article written to this brief is likely to have an element of sensationalism ; curiosity about sex or money may be deliberately aroused ; conflicts in an artist 's life are likely to be dramatised . |
| 2 | The review seemed to think that the swinging Sixties contained a readership , among others , that would be shocked by the novel 's candour and scabrousness about sex — ‘ no doubt he has touched himself on the raw . |
| 3 | If you are someone who finds talking about sex or AIDS difficult or embarrassing , you may find yourself concentrating on the facts , rather than on feelings . |
| 4 | HOW CAN I TALK ABOUT SEX ? |
| 5 | The thing about sex , thought Jay , apart from everything else , is that for a few , for many , for countless seconds and sometimes glorious minutes , you stop thinking . |
| 6 | The opinions policemen express about sex crimes are worth noting , because they reinforce the structure which gender gives to routine policing . |
| 7 | Rifat 's opinions were shared by many others , Hindu , Muslim and Sikh , but her family in Pakistan must have been exceptionally reticent about sex . |
| 8 | Ruksana 's comments about sex education in the joint family were more typical : |
| 9 | About sex ? |
| 10 | The film was a big success , partly because of its openness about sex ( made possible by the appointment of John Trevelyan to head up the BBFC ) , but also because the hero 's class resentment brought to the surface emotions that British cinema normally repressed . |
| 11 | KNEW nothing about sex . |
| 12 | Johnson is 50 , Melville is 41 and sometimes as you hear this playground talk about sex you hear echoes of a world ignorant of Aids . |
| 13 | By women being open about sex , it made life much easier for men . |
| 14 | Insofar as soul is about sex , one result can be a musical hypersexuality , where the signs of passion are learnt , exaggerated , Inflated and unmoored from the ‘ real thing ’ . |
| 15 | Foucault describes how we are living in a world of endless insatiable chatter about sex which feeds on the illusion that if we question Sex enough it will reveal its Truths . |
| 16 | To quote my rabbi : ‘ Masters and Johnson — what did they know about sex that the rabbis did n't know about two thousand years ago ? ’ |
| 17 | And yet he was , he said , preoccupied with Keynes and not thinking about sex at all . |
| 18 | In this respect , too , the ground had been prepared by what Michel Foucault has described as a ‘ pathologization of sex ’ in late antiquity : anxiety about sex and the sexual regime began to dominate the thought of medical writers and the advice they offered to clients intent on achieving balanced lives . |
| 19 | Among Christians anxiety about sex was intensified , especially in the course of the crisis of identity around ad 400 . |
| 20 | Louisa 's confusion about sex , and whether her body is ‘ a kind of power ’ or a vulnerability , leaving her open to sexual attack , has turned into an obsession with losing weight , and wishing to lose the breasts and curviness that cause so many problems in her life . |
| 21 | The Pope urges that students in seminaries should be taught about sex in seminaries . |
| 22 | This incident is bound to re-activate the old controversy about sex education , namely that one person 's information is another 's propaganda . |
| 23 | But is it really a good idea that students should be taught about sex in seminaries ? |
| 24 | Books about sex , illustrated guides to love-making , are also popular and are still considered as novelties in a society where such books have rarely been seen before and where sex was a taboo subject . |
| 25 | And the way she put it , she ought to have been alive today , she could have taught them how to tell people about sex . |
| 26 | ‘ He 'd written all these books about sex and I thought he 'd know all these exciting things and I 'd just be so ordinary . |
| 27 | Best-selling novelist ( Sin City , Penguin , £3.99 ) , poet , short story writer ( her story Hot Ice Cream first appeared in August SHE ) , Wendy is famous for the intensity of her prose and her frankness about sex and religion . |
| 28 | Such prejudices will flourish so long as hard facts are unavailable , and facts about sex in schools are practically non-existent because no education authority is likely to commission research on the subject . |
| 29 | Sample this crucial guide to everything you want to know about sex with these questions from SHE readers who were n't afraid to ask . |
| 30 | I felt totally drawn into the piece as I recognised struggled I 've had with my own mother and my feelings of shame , and fear , talking about sex — the terrible silence that develops which no one attempts to break down for fear of the pain ‘ that ‘ conversation would bring ’ . |